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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Never leave nails sticking in loose
boards where animal, hight step ON
them.
Rub your stoyepipe with linseed
oil. keep it in dry place, and it will
not rust.
Boil Siberians, or crab apples.
whole, twenty five minutes; eight
ounces of sugar to a quart.
Don't compel your horses to eat
musty hay. 1t will produce fatal lung
trouble. and, in any event, heaves.
Always set your hens in the even
ing rather than by daylight. They
will be more sure to stick to the nest
afterwa-d.
To produce a good gloss on linen.
pour pint Of boiling water upon two
ounces of gum arabic. cover. and let
stand over night; add spoonful to the
starch.-GOod Cheer.
Sweep carpets gently. Even rag
carpets should be treated with consid-
Grafton. A severe digging with
broom wears the warp and scrapes out
the lint of the rags needlessly.
The value Of good horse is never
realized until he is dead or parted
with. Time spent in looking after the
comforts of the work horses is time
we'll spent.-MontreI Witness.
-Custard Cake.-Three eggs well
beaten. one cupful sugar. one and one
third cupfuls of flour, six tablespoon
fuls sweet cream, two teaspoonfuls
baking powder. flavor to TASTE
Toledo Blade.
In regard to selling wheat from
wagons. why does not the farmer take
a sample of wheat and engage before
selling. and not be at the mercy of
sharks i'm order to sell and get homer
Indiana Farmer.
Do not place raw meat directly on
ice; for the juices are apt to be with
drawn. 1t should never DO left i'm the
wrapping paper. Put in an uncovered
dish and then set on the ice.-Fdrn,,
Field and StOckmdn.
The best remedy for roup, which is
indicated by discharge from the nos
trils, hoarse breathing and refusal of
food on the part of the fowls. is to in
ject in each nostril, with a syringe or
sewing-machine can, two drops Of a
mixture Of one tablespoonful each Of
lard and crude petroleum, to which
ten drops Of carbolic acid have been
added--Troy Times.
When files have become clOgged
with oil and grease the best plan is To
boil them for q few minutes in some
strong caustic soda water. A little
scrubbing with an old tooth brush will
be beneficial before rinsing them in
boiling water and drying them before
the fire. The ''pins," which are Sd
harmful to fine work. can be removed
by thin. hard piece of sheet brass.
These ''pins" may to a great extent be
avoided by using chalk on the file if it
be used dry, or oil when that may be-
applied
There is one branch of stock-rais-
ing which is not by any means over
done, and that is the raising of mules.
As the scope Of agricultural country in
the United States increases, the greater
the demand for animals suited for
draft purposes, and it is an acknowl-
edged fact that in many sections the
mule has as many friends rs the horse
for this object The great arguments
in favor of mules are their hardness.
endurance, and the ease with which
they can be sOld.-.S0n Francisco
Chronicle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
cRA1u,Ious ADVICE.


Lofty Mn. POmpadOur's Experience With
Young Woman Dry-Goods Clerk.
The assurance of the average young
woman clerk 10 simply refreshing.
Nothing daunts her. And the manner
in which she airs her opinions and
preferences indicates degree of gall
that would make the fortune of book
agent or lightning-rod man.
Madame Pompadour, lofty, awe-in-
spring. and frigid as an icicle. sails
haughtily up to the lace counter and
demands that some jetted escurial lace
be shown her. The frizzled and banged
young woman behind the counter
coolly sticks her pencil back Of her ear.
and says:
"Escurial lace? yes'm. We have the
newest patterns, but its not worn as
much as it was last year. What did
you wish it for, plcaseP"
'For trimming q black silk" says
madam coldly.
"Oh, why don't you get black passe-
menterie then? Its worn almost en-
tirely. Now. if 1 were you I'd get me
~
"Show me the lace, if you please.
MISS" says madam. i'm tone calcula-
ted to make ones blood run cold.
But Miss Cash. quite undaunted, says:
"Oh, certainly. ma'an,. but. really.
lace is worn SO little this spring. and
passementerie is so fashionable, and"
condescendingly-'I think it would
look well on you Now it don't look so
well on meat least. not . great deal
of it. for I'm So
Twill you have the kindness to let
ME see the lace asked fOr?'
''Oh, certainly-was just locking for
new pattern in passementerie l feel
sure you'd like better than the lace
oh, here it is. Now, if were you I'd
make my dress with a."
".Are you going to let me see that
lace?' asks madam, frigidly.
"And you don't like the passemen-
terie? We are selling great deal Of
it. Oh. how would you like narrow
band of the passeMenterie as heading
to your lace? l should think you'd
like it, would. 1t would look we'll on
you. Being so large you know You
could wear more trimming than l could.
Here is a lovely pattern in escurial
lace. Now with this narrow passe-
menterie it"
II don't want any passementerie,
miss"
"No? It's rery stylish. A friend Of
mine has just had black silk made
with ten yards of wide passementerie
ON it Really. havn't seen any lace
worn on silks made this season. Now.
if were in your place. I'd at least
have eight or nine Of these jet orna-
ments on panel at the side or-how
were you thinking of having your dress
male?"
This il more than Pompadour
can endure, and the madam stalks out
while her would-be friend and adviser
shifts her chewing gum to- the other
side of her mouth and says to- . partner
in gall:
Don't believe she wanted amy Thing
The idea of putting escurial lace on =
black silk when passementerie is all the
rage! She must be crazYr'-Zsnas
Dane, in Tid-Bits.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
THE FALL OF MALAkOFF.
The Story OF q Dispatch That Brought
Sixty Thousand Francs.

The Story OF Dispatch That Brought
Sixty Thousand Francs.
Diplomatic espionage rendered a
great service to the Second Empire in
1855 by enabling the French to get
into SebastopOl. The credit for the
fall of that stronghold was due, it has
just TRANSFERRED, to the late NJ. de Nous
tier. who was in the year above men,
toned, at the head of the French En-
bassy ut Berlin. 1t that time Colonel
Won Munster was military attache of
Prussia at st. Petersburg, and in high
favor ut court. The wife Of the Gar
Nicholas was a Princess Of Prussia,
and was fondly attached to her native
land. All the representatives Of her
brother were treated by her with 4
kindness verging on familiarity. The
councils of war. when the seige Of Sc
bastopol was going on, used to be held
in her sitting-rOom. Colonel Won Mum
ster was given the minutes of them.
No details of the campaign which the
military authorities at st. Petersburg
could give him were withheld. He sent
confidential reports of the information
so obtained to Berlin for the Kings sole
perusal. Frederick William kept them
a secret from every one but Gerlach, n
kind of seer belonging to the feudal
party, who regarded Manteuffel as an
apOstate because he advised the King
to keep on good terms with Napoleon
III, and who discovered, when Queen
Victoria went on visit to st. Cloud,
that she was the scarlet lady of the
Apocalypse. Manteuffel was furioasly
jealous of the royal favor in which
Gerlach stood, and took means to in
tercept the Munster correspondence so
as to read it and have it copied. In
one of these letters there was dispatch
from Todleben, informing the Car Of
the weakness of the Maiakoff, which
could not hold out against n strong as
sault. Now, Manteuffers copying
clerk was in the pay of De Moustier,
and. when they were thinking ut
the Tuileries of ordering the siege of
Sebastopol to be raised. copy Of
Todlcbcn's dispatch was sold to the
French Embassy for 10000 francs. Or
ders were sent to Pclissier to attack
the Malakoff. He, not wanting to be
pestered oy his incompetent EmperO,
and the gang about him with military
instructions, ordered the telegraphic
wires to he cut. Marshal Eaillant was
then packed off to the Crimea with the
secret paper in his pocket. 1t was a
revelation to Pclisser. and all that 70
manned was to get the English to at
tack the Redan. while the French were
trying to storm the Malakoff. The
General won ducal title. big grant
of money and pension, and became
such an important parsonage that the
Empress gave him the hand of her
beautiful cousin. who was presented
br her Imperial Majesty with a suitable
dowry and trOusseau of regal magnif-
icence.-Pdris Letter in London Truth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

DIR. Ray Palmer's son, Rev. Charles
Ray Palmer, thus explains the story
that his famous hymn. MY Faith
looks up to Thee. has two stanzas less
than the original draft handed to DR..
Lowell Mason. The truth about that is
that his father translated from the Ger
man two stanzas describing suppliant
before the cross, and then added two
more as the suppliant's utterance. and
these were the first two Of the hymn "a
it now appears. The translated verses
were never used.-BrooElyn Eagle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

We agree with Bob Burdette in the
most truthful saying of his life-''God
wasted mud when he made the man who
after taking paper for six months Or
dered it stopped without paying up ar
rears."-OI City Critic
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

~Any person WAC taxes the paper reg
niarly from the st-of,ice, whether directed
70 hts name or whether he is q subscriber or
not. is RESPONSIBLE for tto ray.
The courts nave decided tsat refusing to
take newspapers from the pos.-ofhce, or re.
moving and leaving them uncalied fer, IL
Drima facie evidence of INTENTIONAL rRA0D
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

Why should not ducks be allowed
on doctors premises? Because they
make such personal remarks
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Senator Plumb has introduced bill
providing for holding terms of the Uni
ted States court at Concordia and Salina.
The acting land commissioner during
the past week has approved for patent
500 homestead and other public land en-
tries in Kansas.
Ida Parrot, aged nine years, the niece
of Henry Coleman, of Logan township
was shot in the left leg just above the
ankle by Louis Vanhorn with a heavy
loaded shot gun last Wednesday evening.
The limb was torn over two thirds Off
and amputation was necessary.
Center Press.
Medicine Lodge has organized pros
pecting company Two thousand five
hundred dollars has been subscribed, and
drilling will commence at once. Almost
every town in the southwest is at work
seeking what it may discover beneath it.
Nearly all have been amply rewarded
Hattie Padgett, school teacher in
Clarke county, whipped big strapping
16-year-old pupil, and was arrested and
tried. The jury. band of good men
and true. acquitted her with a recon-
mendation to lick him again if he
needed it.
seventeen miles west of Great Bend. dis
horned 100 head of cattle the other day.
He says the operation did not appear to
hurt the stock. as they went to feeding
as soon as turned loose.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21
THE SECRETARY PROVES IT.

Secretary FairchiId of the treasury
says IN so many words that the making
Of worsted goods in this country will
soon be an extinct industry unless the
tariff upon them is raised.
This is complete admission by the adj
ministration that the tariff makes the
industry possible and that, if the tariff
isn't high enough, the industry will
cease. Professor Sumner says let it
cease; that if it can't stand without pro-
lection, that proves it ought not to
stand.
But here are. for instance, cotton
goods, once protected by the tariff, that
have under protection come gradually
to be manufactured SO cheaply that they
can now be exported. If they had not
been protected at first, they never would
have got the start which has enabled the
manufacture to become independent.
The confession of the secretary that
even now congress must determine be-
tween raising duty or extinguishing an
industry knocks out the whole free
trade argument.
And, when it comes to those very pro-
ducts that now can flourish without a
tariff, and that are practically with ut
one if they can be sold below similar
foreign products, they could be indiffer-
ent to the free trade question, even if
free trade would not hurt them. Only a
small part of the product is exported:
the bulk is consumed at home Among
consumers are those concerned in
manufactures that do need protec-
ton. Knock out the props
from under them, and away goes the
market for the others. Production must
be limited. and on lessened production cost
rises, expectation is then impossible and
still further restriction is set upon pro-
duction.
So it goes. 1t is absurd to suppose one
industry to be independent of all others
as it was for Mr.. Cleveland to set up
that if manufacturers We're injured no
one would feel it except those directly
engaged in manufacturing. Why, real
estate would fall. grocers would fail,
railroads would lose business and the
whole scheme of industry would fail 1t
stands to reason that it would be so.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21
SHAM SYMPATHY.

England pretends to be particularly
well pleased with Mr.. Cleveland's mes
sage and for once she may be sincere,
but it is self interest that prompts it if
she is. She believes the policy enuncia-
ted by the president if carried into effect
viii not only enure to her financial bene-
fit. but that it will at the same time re-
suit in weakening this government by
its citizens. The same motives prompted
her to hold out to the south, during the
war Of the rebellion, the promise of
recognition in a certain contingency,
which nerved that section to prolong the
struggle which the wiser ones there
recognized as hopeless long before the
end came. 1t was not that England
loved the south more, but because she
knew that every blow that was struck
only weakened both sides here and rela-
lively strengthened her. So now she
would unhesitatingly reduce the citizens
of this country to the level and lower,
than her own miserable subjects in Ire
land if it were in her power to do so, for
she well knows that to weaken a people
in purse is to weaken them in spirit and
therein lies the secret of her great power
and success wherever she has triumphed.
These are facts and conditions that are
familiar to every reading, thinking citi-
zen and they only need to be reminded
of them that they will act in self-defense
in resisting attempts made at home to
do hurt to their best interests and the
insult from abroad implied in express
sions of sympathy and encouragement
thereto. No nation on earth ever grew
and prospered in every particular as did
the United States during the few years
of absolute control of the government by
the Republican party-a rehearsal III de-
tail is not necessary, everybody is famil
lar with its history-and human nature
will develop hitherto unmanifested
freak if. with the experience the country
has had by the change, the people do not
rise in their might and assert their disap
prevail of the latter and reindorse the
former. The signs of the times ummis-
takably indicate such determination.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21
THE OTHER SIDE.
LA CROSSE, Kan. Dec. Il

LA &tsoSCI-s mali. CSN@ 1 -
To the Editor of tie Eagle:
/ desire to answer dispatch sent out
from Topeka by partisans of Walnut City
relative TO the recent supreme court de-
cision in the Rush county seat case. This
decision does not settle the county seat
question in our county. The decision
which was adverse to La Crosse was on
the election held IN 1878, nine years ago.
which election has been the cause of
much controversy. The contest that
grew out of the election of 1878 was liti-
gated in the courts and in 1882 the SUI
preme court decided IN favor of La
Crosse and issued their mandate to the
county officers who We're then all Wal
nut City men. and they all moved to La
Crosse, where the county Offices have
been ever since, and are here vet.
About eighteen months ago Walnut
City commenced a mandamus proceed
ing in the supreme court to compel the
officers to remove to Walnut City. which
has been decided by two of the supreme
judges in favor of Walnut City. But
this decision by no means settles the
county seat question.
On August 23rd. 1897. an election was
held to forever settle the controversy. A
petition was circulated throughout the
county; La Crosse had 81 majority over
two-thirds petition of all the legal
petitioners in the county. The result of
this election gave La Crosse over 400
majority and from 40 to 80 votes over a
three-ffths majority. A temporary in
junction was issued against the county
commissioners by Judge Osborn with
out notice to La Crosse restraining them
from canvassing the vote, which in
junction will be speedily dissolved and
the vote canvasSed.
La Crosse will stand on the election of
August 1887, in which she carried the
county seat beyond any question. All
the county officials are La Crosse men
and elected on the county seat issue.
The people of the county are very IN
dignant at the outrage which has been
perpetrated by the recent decision and
will never submit to the election at a
time when Rush county had but 460
votes. II. j. ANDERSON.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21
SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICS.

The Democratic brotherhood of South
Carolina is not in as amiable a condition
as has been its want these latter years.
At the recent municipal election in
Charleston one of the interesting feat
ureS was the presence in the field of in
dependent candidates of Democratic an
tecedents competing with the regularly
nominated Democratic candidates.
The Chyleston News and Courier has
bestowed columns on columns of earnest
argument and pathetic remonstrance
upon these misguided persons. 1t has
pointed ont to them that Democratic di-
vision in Charleston endangers Demo-
cratic supremacy not only there but in
South Carolina and in the nation. It
has invited them TO consider the gleefui
delight of 1.-The radicals in their for
wardneSs. and has asked them if
they want TO see a negro legisla-
tlre again at Columbia. Last Thurs
day. as final attempt to bring them TO
repentance and better mind, it printed
page of interviews with members Of
the South Carolina delegation at Wash
ington. members of the legislature. cir
cult solicitors. and other exalted demo
Gratis.
From these it appears that Senator
Busler thinks it deplorable that an indie
pendent movement should be started in
Charleston, lat this of all times, when
Democratic harmony should prevail
throughout our country Congressman
Perry thinks that South Carolina should
be the last state to sanction independent
ism" Congressman Hemphill has heard
Of the trouble with great regret. and
never knew an instance vet where the
leaders of such movements didn't ulti
mately land in the Republican party.
Congressman Tillman hopes the regular
Democracy will wipe the independents
out of existence" And 50 on.
Perhaps when ii comes 10 a count of
the vote. the News and Courier ana the
rest of them may find ont that they
have been more scared than hurt But a;
latest advices. the independents were
still there.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21

We see from several of our exchanges
from larger cities that what is called a
Santa Claus fund, is being raised by
voluntary gifts, the object being to pro-
vide the little ones Of the community who
have no parents or whose parents are
too poor to provide their little ones with
such mementoes, with reminders of the
gladstone Christmas occasion in such an
ticles of pleasure and necessity as cir
cumstances shall dictate The move
ment is certainly most commendable
one. Every community would be
brighter and better and happier, both
givers and receivers, were the plan in
universal practice.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21

The Democratic papers admit that Da-
kota, with its 100000 people are entitled
to admission to the Union Some of
them go so far as to say that such action
will probably be taken by the present
congress, but they all admit that it will
not be done in time to permit the people
of Dakota to have vote at the next
presidential election. What contempti-
BILE party meanness! Here is territory
justly entitled to seven electoral votes,
but denied its rights because of the belief
that majority of the voters are Repub-
licans! But what more could be ex-
pected Of party which is in power solely
because of the wholesale suppression of
Republican votes:
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21

As much as the Cleveland Democrats
try to minify Mr.. Randalrs Importance
and influence the fact remains that he
holds the balance of power aud that the
opponents of his theories go to him to
counsel concerning party action on mat
tiers of legislation. The statement now
comes from Washington that he has been
placed on the committee on rules in con-
sideratiOn of his promise not to interfere
with tariff legislation as it may be pro-
posed by the way and means committee.
as he did last winter. From this it ap-
pears that he comes nearer having the
Democratic party at his feet than it has
him under its thumb. He is veritable
Banquo's ghost to the Democracy,
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21
CIRCULATION

When our esteemed contemporary, the
Topeka Commonwealth, quotes the
EAGLE on circulation it should quote
correctly While the EAGLE would de-
light in making its own words good it
cannot undertake to make good such
wild assertions as is attributed to us by
the Commonwealth. The EAGLE does
not refer to its circulation once year
on an average, and but for the pre-
posterous claim of the Capital would
have said nothing in the instance i'm
properly quoted. No daily in Kansas
has a greater circulation than the DAILY
EAGLE and SO long as that fact stands
undisputed there will be nothing but
dignified silence here, but otherwise,
then otherwise.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21

The reported arrangement between
Russia and Austria comes from an uneX-
pected quarter. Disagreement and even
an open rupture between Russia and
Germany would not have caused surprise
because such contingency has been
anticipated for some time. notwithstand-
ing the cars recent visit to Berlin. but a
quarrel with Austria has not been count
ed on. tmust be that Frances Joseph
has been encouraging Leopold to hold
his grip on Bulgaria which the car has
been trying for some time to shake loose.
Queer people those Europeans.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21
A Bachelors Luck. !,

OSfNt-D fscE-
Amos Walton, editor of the Arkansas
City Daily Dispatch, is bachelor and a
Democrat. with all the accompanying
awkwardness. Amos IS a good friend OF
the Bee and we admire him, hence we
sympathize with him when misfortune
crosses his patti: Recently. after com
plotting his editorial labors OF the day
Amos wrote two letters. one 70 his tailor
and the other to his girl. After sealing
them up he got the address wrong. The
tailor received a very petite invitation to
a buggy ride, while his best girl received
the following: Please send me a sam
pie of the stuff your shirts are made of.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21

Eli Perkins says that the boom in Kan
sas is due to. prohibition: The editor of
the Wichita EAGLE says that Kansas
would be much more prosperous without
prohibition.-E News.
If the EAGLE were to attempt to refute
all the false accusations laid at its door
it would have little room for anything
else, but the one contained in the above
paragraph we will deny before it goes
any further. The EAGLE never made
such statement nor one that could he
construed to imply as much. The EAGLE
has ever stood for whatever its editor be-
lieved to be for the best interest of Kan
sas; it has uniformly supported the cause
of prohibition.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-21

Sam Jones has an income of about
thirty thousand dollars per annum.
Half of it is from the sale of his books
and the other half by lectures and work
as an evangelist. Sam is financial
success. BY the way, what has become
of Brother Small's book Uncle Remus'
Letters that had such great run in the
Atlanta constitution few years ago?
Dyer Fox don't pear to be kotchin' brer
rabbit quite SO peert.